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have existed some reptile-birds, which acquired some bird
traits in addition to the reptilian traits they already had.
Since these would be in a transitional phase, they should be
disabled, defective, crippled living beings. Evolutionists
refer to these imaginary creatures, which they believe to
have lived in the past, as "transitional forms."
If such animals ever really existed, there should be mil-
lions and even billions of them in number and variety.
More importantly, the remains of these strange creatures
should be present in the fossil record. In The Origin of
Species, Darwin explained:
If my theory be true, numberless intermediate varieties, link-
ing most closely all of the species of the same group together
must assuredly have existed... Consequently, evidence of their
former existence could be found only amongst fossil remains. 10
However, Darwin was well aware that no fossils of
these intermediate forms had yet been found. He regarded
this as a major difficulty for his theory. In one chapter of his
book titled "Difficulties on Theory," he wrote:

Why, if species have descended from other species by insensi-
bly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable
transitional forms? Why is not all nature in confusion
instead of the species being, as we see them, well
defined?… But, as by this theory innumerable transi-
tional forms must have existed, why do we not find them
embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the
earth?… Why then is not every geological formation and
every stratum full of such intermediate links? 11